Quotes About Refinement

There's always a better way to do something.

I admit to a bias toward high culture.

You can always be a little bit better.

I look to improve every time I play, whether batting or bowling.

A good typeface is like a well-crafted English or Italian suit: it always looks perfect.

I am a person who holds the aesthetic high. I have suits made in Savile Row.

I love to dress in Italian clean-cut three-piece suits.

When you set out to create a new product, you usually do not start by trying to think of something completely new. You think of a product or concept that is already 'normal' to the world and then try to make it better. You make it Super Normal.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me.

Consider the contrast between the well-bred

But our God is an expert at removing worthless things out of us while retaining the valuable.

Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous.

Their neatly barbered hair and tailored coats and silk ties contrasted strikingly with

We had progressed from "completely useless" to "moderately useful.

While man exists in this mortal state he needs some of the things of the world; he must have food and clothing and provision for shelter; and beside these bare necessities he may righteously desire the facilities of education, the incidentals of advancing civilization, and the things that are conducive to refinement and culture; yet all of these are but aids to achievement, not the end to attain which man was made mortal.

Strive to be better today than you were yesterday.

Suffering related to circumstances beyond my control, suffering related to consequences of my besetting sin, and suffering caused by others who refused to see their own sin. In all these instances, the Lord has been at work, refining my focus upon personal holiness, amplifying my ministry through very humbling experiences, and reminding me repeatedly to extend grace not just to the gracious but to those who lack a grace I took too long to come to myself.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing." —

Trees are schizophrenic now and beginning to lose control, enraged with the shock of their fiery new colors. Someone—was it van Gogh?—said that orange is the color of insanity. Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.

Beauty is terror. We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it... We want to be devoured by it, to hide ourselves in that fire which refines us.